International Legal Scholarship and the Challenge of Digitalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12779883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tilmann Altwicker (0000-0002-4076-4043, Swiss National Science Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-246 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Chinese Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1540-1650 • E-ISSN: 1746-9937 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/chinesejil/jmz012 |
| OpenAlex | W2980955773 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The paper argues that digitalization primarily presents a methodological challenge for international legal scholarship. Three developments are relevant in this context: the datafication of law, computerized information retrieval, and the differentiation of legal knowledge. International legal scholarship has benefited from treating legal texts, legal relationships as well as legal interactions and decision-making “as data”. Typically, quantitative methods used on this data include text mining, network analysis, cluster analysis, and regression analysis. While data-driven scholarship cannot replace a hermeneutic approach to international law, it is likely to change the dimensionality of legal research, require adaptations of the law school curriculum, and enhance the interdisciplinary connectivity of international legal scholarship
Context (archaeology · Digital scholarship · Empirical legal studies · Engineering ethics · Geography · International law · Legal realism · Legal research · Library science · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence in Law · Comparative and International Law Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |